European startup Revolut reportedly asked employees to leave as part of a cost-cutting effort amid difficult times. In an effort to trim expenses, European fintech outfit Revolut has allegedly urged employees to leave, according to staff interviewed by Wired. “Some of the employees allegedly pressured to leave have been left stranded in a foreign country […]
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Renowned researcher believes that Satoshi was altruistic and thus will never spend his 1.1 Bitcoins, making it the fairest asset. The researcher who identified 1.1 million Bitcoins (BTC) that Satoshi Nakamoto mined, said that his research makes him believe that Satoshi was altruistic and will never spend his coins. Sergio Demian Lerner, the designer of […]
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Algorand claims in its promotional materials to be the first PoS blockchain, but NXT lead developer says his project was first. Cryptocurrency Algorand (ALGO) claims in its promotional materials to be the first proof-of-stake, or PoS, blockchain, but NXT lead developer Lior Yaffe claimed that his project was first. In a June 3 tweet, Yaffe […]
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COVID-19 pandemic seems to be one of the drivers behind the recent sharp increase in Bitcoin trading volume across Russia. On June 4, a new study performed by a number of Russia-based crypto exchanges revealed a significant rise in Bitcoin (BTC) trading across Russia since March amid the COVID-19 lockdown. As RBC reports, representatives from […]
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The advent of digital money will threaten the U.S. dollar’s global dominance, but it won’t be easy to dethrone the current global reserve currency. The global monetary system has been centered around the United States dollar since at least the end of World War II when the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement formalized the greenback’s ascent […]
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The Ethereum network has become highly congested since the end of April, leading some to entertain a gas limit or block size increase. Continuing congestion on the Ethereum (ETH) network has led some developers and community members to call for increasing the gas limit, which defines its transaction throughput. Data from Etherscan shows that the […]
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Three US-based universities were targeted by the NetWalker ransomware group over the last seven days. A ransomware gang claims to have successfully attacked three universities within the last seven days. They say that their latest attack was against the University of California San Francisco, or UCSF, on June 3. Cointelegraph had access to the evidence […]
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Bloomberg’s report that provides crypto outlook for June says that it expects Tether to pass Ether as the number two cryptocurrency on the strength of the dollar. A report from Bloomberg that provides a crypto market outlook for June says that it expects Tether (USDT) to surpass Ethereum (ETH) in market capitalization. The report notes […]
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The 100k user milestone represents 2% of Kakao’s current user base in South Korea. South Korean company, Kakao, announced that its new crypto wallet function surpassed 100,000 users in less than a day in its chat app, KakaoTalk. The feature went live on June 3. According to the internet giant, KakaoTalk’s Klip was launched with […]
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